by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jan 20, 2019 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Education, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Outreach, Public Speaking, Whole Place Preservation
Promoting The Historical Resources of Audubon SC’s Silver Bluff – January 2019 As a red-tailed hawk soars above a place, what would it see if it could travel through time as well as space? That’s the question I asked at the Beech Island...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Dec 8, 2018 | Blog, Community Engagement, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Outreach, Planning
Audubon’s Silver Bluff Sanctuary How do you bring history forward and connect? That’s a hard question, but one that Silver Bluff Audubon Center & Sanctuary is answering by hiring two skilled videographers, Elizabeth Brown and Katherine Kelly, to...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jul 2, 2018 | African American History, Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Operations, Outreach, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
How to Manage Major Change in a Historic Site? How does a historical plantation that has become a 3400-acre forested nature sanctuary metamorphose into a historic site and do so with only modest changes to the landscape? What kinds of new visitor facilities and...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Nov 30, 2017 | African American History, Blog, Community Engagement, Governance, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Operations, Outreach, Planning, Public Speaking, Whole Place Preservation
Polarity Thinking Sparks New Insights SC Audubon Society Heritage Meeting November 15, 2017 Back in August 2017, at the invitation of Sharon Richardson, the SC executive director of Audubon South Carolina (ASC), I visited Silver Bluff plantation, now a South...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Aug 5, 2017 | African American History, Blog, Community Engagement, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Operations, Outreach, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
A New Vision for Silver Bluff? August 3, 2017 In early August, I went to Silver Bluff plantation, now a South Carolina Audubon Society sanctuary, and then to Redcliff Plantation, now a state historic site. Both were owned before and after the Civil War by...
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